Sunday, January 01, 2006

Stop The Presses!(If Only They Could,eh?)

Just in from Channel 4 TV News: the Russians have stopped the flow of gas through Ukraine altogether.
It's affecting the whole of Eastern Europe.
They would probably settle for 'influencing' a bit of regime change.
Good old satellites, eh?
Good old buffer zone.
Back to spheres of influence; as in the forties, Western expertise and logistics, due to 'relations' being good(we sit quietly while they bugger their own people and our politicians) has produced strategic leverage in Eastern Europe.

What's the odds our governments try to fight 'fire with fire' by politicising a few of our industries, so they're like Gazprom?

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